Image sequencer, infragram, and RPi Cam for Raspberry Pi camera

[jywarren]

(copy of #53 but against main branch instead of master)

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#16

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[jywarren]

We should revert this, I think?

[jywarren]

gyp ERR! stack Error: Can't find Python executable "python", you can set the PYTHON env variable.

ok, and when we had used just python, not python2.7, we had:

+ cp /etc/rpicam_config.txt config.txt
+ bash ./install.sh q
Unknown host QEMU_IFLA type: 50
...
...
...
Unknown host QEMU_IFLA type: 43
sudo: unable to resolve host a872b2f58b43
Pulling docker image gitlab/gitlab-runner-helper:x86_64-de7731dd ...
ERROR: Job failed: execution took longer than 1h0m0s seconds

Hm. Actually it looks like that had worked -- ran past all the npm/javascript installs and just timed out on installing RPi_Cam_Web_Interface. Looking at the silvanmelchior to see if we got that wrong or reverted something...

[jywarren]

I'll try reverting it back to regular python and seeing if we can get it to not time out on that install script. For record, the script that was running when it timed out was:

https://github.com/silvanmelchior/RPi_Cam_Web_Interface/blob/master/install.sh

And, GitLab can only run jobs for an hour, i think.

[jywarren]

And should this be reverted too?

[icarito]

I tried it a couple of times - the issue I think is that it takes a lot of time to compile image-sequencer dependencies on emulated arm - it takes past the 1H allowed maximum at Gitlab.
It's annoying - we would have to save some time by precompiling - but I don't know how to upload precompiled binaries to npm.

[jywarren]

I tried reverting this file but seem not to be able to???

[icarito]

how so "not able to" is it a permissions issue?

[icarito]

If you are finding issues building, it's a good idea to check the upstream project https://github.com/hypriot/image-builder-rpi/blob/master/versions.config - as Raspbian is a moving target that gets updated and requires tweaking the build.